Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 10
In later days two mighty swans have been seen to fly from the nest.
Who acts: two mighty swans · What happens: see, fly · To what, where: two mighty swans, nest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two mighty swans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obl |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 swans | nummod |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swans | amod |
| 6 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fly | mark |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect · passive | two mighty swans | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | two mighty swans not said here | the nest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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